The Microsoft Vision: Agent-Intermediated Computing
February 9, 2023
Not one single input from smart software. — Editor
[Mise en scène] Googzilla is towering over advertisers, hissing and brandishing its long talons. Then the creature turns its head. It tiny ear slits twitch. He hears a sound like “boink” or “thunk.” Distracted, the 25 year-old terror looks from the cowering advertisers and fixes his maroon-hued eyes on a almost insignificant figure. That entity is Satya Nadella, who has just ruing Sundar’s and Prabhakar’s high school reunion. The fear of answering the question “Hey, how did you guys miss this ChatGPT – Microsoft thing” is terrifying. Googzilla emits a plaintive “welp.” The advertisers back away and start walking toward Redmond. [Fade to black]
The shoe has dropped. Boink or thunk, depending on your perceptual equipment. “Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Will Challenge Google Search” reports “Microsoft may finally have figured out how to get you to use Bing.” The article adds a quote directly from the champion of high school reunions in India:
“All computer interaction is going to be mediated with an agent helping,” Chief Executive Satya Nadella said at a launch event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. “We’re going to have this notion of a co-pilot that’s going to be there across every application.”
I won’t point out that “all” is a logical impossibility when it comes to humanoids and computer systems. But I will let that slide… because ChatGPT.
Kudos to Microsoft for pulling off the marketing play of the year. I know it is only early February 2023, but it may take something truly special to tap into the brush fires ignited by ChatGPT. Will Bing be better? Maybe? Will the ChatGPT thing frighten the allegedly monopolistic Google? I think it has.
There are several examples that illustrate the disarray of the Google radar system. First, the search beacon missed the incoming ChatGPT balloon. Hello, Prabhakar. Isn’t and maybe wasn’t that your job?
Then there was the startling Code Red. Yeah, that’s professional. OpenAI has been around six or seven years. Now it is Code Red. Situational awareness seems to be lacking where Googzilla hunts. This is a flaw in an apex predator, is it not?
The dollop of whipped cream on this torched cupcake was asking the former head chefs of data hoovering and search engine optimization as an spur to buying advertising to return to the wizard lair. Yep, Sundar asked Sergey and Larry to help out with the Code Red thing. Okay, but let’s recall the origin of the Google money machine. Wasn’t it Yahoo-Overture-GoTo? Yeah, I think it was and there was a legal hassle and a billion dollar sentiment to make the GOOG gleam like a sprightly young Googzilla.
The actions that cement the frenzy in the House of Google is the steady flow of “it’s coming,” “yes, it’s a demo,” and “okay, we bought an outfit that Sam Bankman Fried found interesting.” The problem is that “to be” does not close the gap with the ChatGPT riding its hyper-drive electronic motorcycle on Google’s private motorways.
Several observations:
- Will the OpenAI and ChatGPT thing help Microsoft address the security of its existing software and services? When?
- Will Microsoft milk the marketing buzz and return to business as usual: Killing printers, interfaces that baffle, and features that disrupt one’s activity on a Windows enabled system?
- Will Microsoft have an answer to those who would claim that smart software violates fair use of intellectual property?
- Will Microsoft be able to handle bias and outputs which lead to interesting but harmful outcomes like a student getting expelled after mommy and daddy paid $135,000 for tuition?
But for now. The payoff for Microsoft is the thrill of watching Googzilla squirm. And the “all” word? That’s just an illustration of the imprecision of Microsoftie speech.
Stephen E Arnold, February 9, 2023
Easy Monitoring for Web Site Deltas
February 9, 2023
We have been monitoring selected Clear Web pages for a research project. We looked at a number of solutions and turned to VisualPing.io. The system is easy to use. Enter a url of the Web page for which you want a notification of a delta (change). Enter an email, and the system will provide you with a notification. The service is free if you want to monitory five Web pages per day. The company has a pricing FAQ which explains the cost of more notification. The Visual Ping service assumes a user wants to monitor the same Web site or sites on a continuous basis. In order to kill monitoring for one site, a bit of effort is required. Our approach was to have a different team member sign up and enter the revised monitor list. There may be an easier way, but without an explicit method, a direct solution worked for us.
Stephen E Arnold, February 9, 2023
Google and OpenAI: The Big Dust Up
February 8, 2023
Let’s go back to high school English class and a very demanding spinster named Miss Drake. Her test question was, “Who wrote this line?”
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times. (Henry IV, Part 2 [~ 1597] Act 3)
Do you remember? I do. The answer is the Bard of Avon, and he allegedly spun the phrase from his brain cells or he ripped it off from another playwright. Yeah, the plagiarism thing has not been resolved, and it is unclear if and with whom the Bard sucked in content and output a money-making play. Was the real Bard a primordial version of a creator on YouTube? Sure, why not draw that connection?
Now back to the quote. I like the idea of “the revolution of the times.”
The idea is that some wizard like Sundar or Prabhakar can check out the “Book of Fate” which may or may be among the works in the Google data warehouse and see the future. Just the Palantir seeing stone which works so darned well as those SPAC bets attest. Perhaps that’s what happened when Google declared a Code Red? Fear and a big bet that the GOOG can de-momentum ChatGPT.
When did OpenAI become a thing? I would suggest that it was in 2015 if one believes Sillycon Valley history. The next highlight of what was something of note took place in 2019 but possibly earlier when Microsoft plopped some Azure cycles on the OpenAI conference table. Two years later we get this:
Google at Code Red over ChatGPT As Teams Reassigned to Work on Competing AI Products
Almost coincident with Google’s realizing that people were genuinely excited about ChatGPT, Google realized that Prabhakar’s hair had caught on fire. Sundar, the Sillycon Valley manager par excellence called back the original Relevance Revolutionaries (Messrs. Brin and Page) after Microsoft made it evident to the well-fed at Davos that Softies were good at marketing. Maybe Microsoft fell short of the “Start Me Up” for the outstandingly “good enough” Windows 95, but the Chat GPT deal is notable. To make sure the GOOG got the message that Microsoft was surfing on the waves created by ChatGPT, another bundle of billions were allocated to OpenAI and ChatGPT. The time was January 2023, and it was clear that millions of norms interested in Microsoft’s use of ChatGPT in those “good enough” engineering marvels, Bing.com and the Google infused Edge browser.
Where are we on Wednesday, February 8, 2023? How about this as a marker:
Google said Bard would be widely available to the public in the next few weeks. Source: MSN.com
Yep, the killer words are right there—”would be.” Not here, the conditional future, just a limited test. Not integrated into heaven knows how many apps like OpenAI. Not here like the collection of links generated by Matt Shumer. Not here like the YouTube videos explaining how to build an app from scratch with ChatGPT. Nope. Google is into the “to be” and “demo” mode.
Let’s do simple math on Google’s situational awareness:
- 2015 OpenAI and Elon Musk are visible
- 2019 Microsoft provides some “money” which may be a round trip to pay for Azure cycles
- 2022 (November) ChatGPT gets a million users in five days
- 2022 (December) Google feels the heat from burning hair and screeches “Code Red”
- 2023 (January) Davos talks about ChatGPT, not just the new world order, power, money, and where to eat dinner
- 2023 (February) Google says, “Out version of ChatGPT is coming… soon. Really, very soon.” But for now it’s a limited demo. And Microsoft? The ChatGPT thing turned up when one of my team ran a query on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Yep, ready or not there it was.
Several observations:
- The Sundar and Prabhakar duo missed the boat on the impact of ChatGPT for search. Err, you are supposed to be the search wizards, and you are standing on the platform waiting for the next train to arrive?
- The uptake of ChatGPT may be a reaction against the Google search system, not a reaction to the inherent greatness of ChatGPT. A certain search company with a 90 percent share and a genuine disdain to relevant responses to users’ queries may have boosted the interest in ChatGPT. If I am correct, this is an unintended consequence of being Googley.
- The Microsoft marketing move is an outstanding [a] bit of luck, [b] a super star tactic that warrants a Grammy (oh, wait, the Grammies suck), or [c] a way to breathe new life into products which suffer from featuritis and a lack of differentiation.
Net net: Sundar and Prabhakar are destined for Harvard case study glory. Also, the dynamic duo may pull a marshmallow from the fire, but will it make a great S’more? Does sophomoric rhyme with Anthropic. And Code Red? The revolution of the times might be here as the Bard wrote or obtained from a fellow playwright.
Stephen E Arnold, February 8, 2023
An Interesting View of AI Deployment
February 8, 2023
Let me summarize the 5,000 word essay “Let’s Speed Up AI”: Go faster. The idea is that one has to accelerate that which is already accelerating. Imagine a downhill skier with a jet pack. Once momentum is gained, fire the jet back pack. The author believes that wide, rapid uptake of AI methods will result in the types of applications and controls. I certainly am not keen on having Terminator kick in my door, but I will reserve judgment on the wisdom of this “technology will work out its kinks.” A French guy pointed out that technology has unanticipated consequences. Today it is not necessary to get one’s priestly robes in a twist.
The write up states:
This idea that we can imagine every problem before it happens is a bizarre byproduct of a big drop in our risk tolerance as a society.
Are countries with access to AI technology risk averse? That’s a question I am not able to answer. I am not sure anyone can. Perhaps it is a job for the to-be systems from Microsoft Bing or the Code Red Google?
In reference to the suggestion that AI has to slow down, the write up says:
The basic premise of the slow-down article is that AI doom is inevitable. We’ve got to slow it down or stop the research now to avoid the disaster! It’s not that AI might go crazy and kill us all, it’s that it will kill us all!
If you are fans of the go-fast approach to technology, you may find the “Let’s Speed Up AI” argument on the money. I think that some pharma execs like the idea of go-fast.
Is it important that Google with its oodles of smart software and thousands of wizards [a] overlooked the potential of ChatGPT, [b] noted the demand and did not know how to frame Googzilla’s response, or [c] has too many executives like Sundar and Prabhakar who want to go slow or not go anywhere that would undermine their compensation?
Google’s new posture is go fast. I wonder if the firm has weighed objectively the risks of rolling out a knee jerk response to what is the marketing home run of the last six months.
My hunch is that the battle is not among smart software vendors; I think we are engaged in a marketing tussle. Technology is like the illustrations of new cars in a 1950s’ Saturday Evening Post. The cars were not that good. But the messages and images were outstanding.
Accelerating the accelerating sounds good. Should we ask the downhill skier with the jet pack?
Stephen E Arnold, February 8, 2023
A Possible Tech Giant Wants Regulation? Mommy, When Do I Have to Be Home?
February 7, 2023
I am interested in people who want government to regulate their actions. I have a sneaking suspicion that the request is either uninformed, a sham, or an indirect statement like “We will abuse technology every possible way we can think of.”
You may have a different point of view. That’s super. But when I read articles like “ChatGPT Must Be Regulated and AI Can Be Used by Bad Actors, Warns OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer” I find the statement disingenuous.
But, first, let’s look at a snippet of the write up:
Asked if it’s too early for regulators to get involved, Murati told _Time_, “It’s not too early. It’s very important for everyone to start getting involved, given the impact these technologies are going to have.”
Mr. Mira Murati is the chief technology officer of the outfit doing business as OpenAI.
Who can disagree that “it is important for everyone to start getting involved.” I assume that means attorneys general, local, county, and state officials, those in Washington, DC—but “everyone” is a much bigger group. It is, if I recall correctly one of my logic professors, a categorical affirmative.
That’s impossible.
Thus, the statement is horse feathers or horse ridge or some other metaphor for a huge slice of Aldi baloney.
My take on what’s behind this statement is my opinion, so stop reading. I am pretty flexible now that I am a dinobaby and easily irritated:
- The plea to be regulated is to get a committee to promulgate rules. Once the rules are known, the person demanding rules can figure out how to circumvent without breaking the law, getting fined, or killed by a self driving car which is situationally stupid. I can heard the response to the regulations, “Mommy, why do I have to come in by 10 pm. None of my friends has to be home so early.” Yep, mommy stuff.
- The statement makes the high-tech outfit seem so darned rational and accommodating. I hear, “We have invented something that can do evil. We need help managing what we have built and turned loose on a social construct obsessed with NFL football, TikToks, and quiet quitting. The goal is what I call positive posturing.
- The company has advisors and lawyers who want rules. Lobbying can influence those rules to benefit the companies with a technology advantage. The goal is to cement that power position. How quickly did the US government move to action against AT&T, Microsoft, or Google? Yeah.
The write up says, “Regulations, please.” I hear, “Mommy, why do I have to come home at 10 pm?” The idea is to get beyond barriers so lawyers can explain that the child was not involved in drug bust.
Stephen E Arnold February 7, 2023
Definitive List Update 2-7-23
February 7, 2023
Mr. Shumer has updated his original “definitive list” of AI vendors and projects. We have inserted his additions into the table published on February 3, 2023. The “definitive list” is not definitive, but there are some gems in his selection. He is the developer of the hyperwrite.ai system. A happy honk to him for his thinking on this important topic.
Category: Art/Images | |
Blimey Create | https://blimeycreate.com |
ClipDrop | https://clipdrop.co/ |
Craiyon | https://www.craiyon.com/ |
GoCharlie | https://gocharlie.ai/ |
Hexo AI | https://hexo.ai/ |
LexicaArt | https://lexica.art/?q=anime |
MageSpace | https://www.mage.space |
Midjourney | https://www.midjourney.com |
MiniStudio | https://ministudio.ai |
Playground AI | https://playgroundai.com |
Stockimg AI | https://stockimg.ai/ |
Note: Craiyon added to original list | |
Category: Audio Summaries | |
Meet Jamie AI | http://meetjamie.ai |
Synth_HQ | https://www.usesynth.com/ |
VoicePen (audio2text) | https://voicepen.ai/ |
Word Cab | http://wordcab.com |
Category: Coding | |
Durable | https://durable.co/ |
GitHub Copilot | https://github.com/features/copilot |
HeyAI2sql | https://www.ai2sql.io |
MayaLabsIO | https://mayalabs.io/ |
Replit | https://replit.com |
Tabnine | https://www.tabnine.com |
Category: Conversational+A60 | |
Ask delphi | https://www.askdelphi.com |
Chat | https://chat.ai/index.html |
ChatGPT | https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
JaqNJil AI | https://beta.jaqnjil.com/ |
MyReplika | https://replika.ai |
Category: Customer Service | |
Brainfish AI | https://www.brainfi.sh/ |
CohereHQ | https://cohere.io/ |
Category: Databases | |
Pinecone | https://www.pinecone.io |
Weaviate io | https://weaviate.io/ |
Category: Design | |
Diagram | ttps://diagram.com |
UIizard | https://uizard.io |
Vizcom AI | https://www.vizcom.ai |
Category: Gaming | |
InWorld AI | https://www.inworld.ai |
Leonardo (game art) | https://leonardo.ai/ |
Scenario_gg | https://www.scenario.gg |
Category: Inference and Training | |
BananaDev_ | https://banana.dev |
Goose ai NLP | https://goose.ai |
GraphSignal | https://github.com/graphsignal |
Leap api | https://developer.leap.build |
GetSteamship | https://twitter.com/GetSteamship |
MagicEducator | https://www.magiceducator.com |
MosaicML | https://www.mosaicml.com |
Weights Biases | https://wandb.ai |
Category: Legal | |
Casetext | https://casetext.com |
Donotpay | https://donotpay.com |
SpellbookLegal | https://www.spellbook.legal |
Note: Casetext presents itself as an alternative to LexisNexis. | |
Cateogory: Marketing Copy Generation | |
Copy ai | https://www.copy.ai |
Copysmith ai | https://copysmith.ai |
Gomoonbeam | https://www.gomoonbeam.com |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
Jasper | http://Jasper.ai |
MagicalTome | shorturl.at/huwzU |
Sales Stack | http://salesstack.ai |
WriteSonic | https://writesonic.com |
Category: Models | |
AI21Labs | https://www.ai21.com/studio |
Anthropic AI | https://www.anthropic.com |
Cohere AI | https://cohere.ai |
Google AI | https://ai.google |
Open AI | https://openai.com |
Stability AI | https://stability.ai/home |
Category: Music | |
HarmonAI | https://www.harmonai.org |
PlaylistAI | https://www.playlistai.app/ |
Category: Photographs (Some Enhancers) | |
Bloom AI | http://bloom.ai |
Blend | https://www.blendnow.com/ |
ClaidAI | https://claid.ai/ |
Stylized AI | http://stylized.ai |
Category: Prompts and Chaining | |
Dust4 AI | https://dustai.es/en |
GPT index | https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/use_cases.html |
Humanloop | https://humanloop.com |
LangChain AI | https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html |
ListAssist | https://www.listassist.ai/ |
Promptbase | https://promptbase.com |
Retune (GPT front end) | https://retune.so/ |
WhyLabs | https://whylabs.ai |
Category: Question Answering | |
Avanty App | https://avanty.app/ |
BetterBrainAI | https://www.betterbrain.ai |
Qatalog | https://qatalog.com/ |
Charma (managing) | https://www.charma.com/ |
Fermat (brainstorming) | https://fermat.ws/ |
GeniusSheets | https://www.geniussheets.com |
Glass AI | https://glass.health/ai |
Light AI | https://light.ai/ |
Olli AI | https://www.olli.ai |
Vizologi | https://vizologi.com/ |
Vazy Data | https://www.vazydata.com/ |
Category: Search and Retrieval | |
MemdotAI | https://get.mem.ai |
Perplexity AI | https://www.perplexity.ai |
You | https://you.com/ |
Category: Survey Analysis | |
Askviable | https://www.askviable.com/ |
Kraftful | https://www.kraftful.com |
Category: Video | |
Augxlabs | https://www.augxlabs.com |
Bria AI | https://bria.ai |
D-ID | https://www.d-id.com/ |
Gloss AI | http://glossai.co |
OASIScalling | https://theoasis.com/ |
Runwayml | https://runwayml.com |
Category: Writing Tools | |
CheckForAI | https://checkforai.com/ |
Every | https://every.to/ |
GetHume | https://app.gethume.com/login/signin |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
InstaNovel | http://instanovel.ai/ |
MyWorkbench | http://mgrworkbench.ai |
WriteWithLAIKA | https://www.writewithlaika.com/ |
Note: The site TheReasonForThat is a listing of AI tools, services and applications |
Stephen E Arnold, February 7, 2023
Legal Eagles Will Have Ruffled Feathers and Emit Non-AI Screeches
February 6, 2023
The screech of an eagle is annoying. An eagle with ruffled feathers can make short work of a French bulldog. But legal eagles are likely to produce loud sounds and go hunting for prey; specifically, those legal eagles will want to make life interesting for a certain judge in Columbia. (Nice weather in Bogota, by the way.)
“A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision” reports:
Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia, who presides over the First Circuit Court in the city of Cartagena, said he used the AI tool to pose legal questions about the case and included its responses in his decision, according to a court document dated January 30, 2023.
One attorney in the US wanted to use smart software in a US case. That did not work out. There are still job openings at Chick-f-A, by the way.
I am not convinced that outputs from today’s smart software is ready for prime time. In fact, much of the enthusiasm is a result of push back against lousy Google search results, a downer economic environment, and a chance to make a buck without ending up in the same pickle barrel as Sam Bankman Fried or El Chapo.
Lawyers have a reason to watch Sr. Garcia’s downstream activities. Here are the reasons behind what I think will be fear and loathing by legal eagles about the use of smart software:
- Billability. If software can do what a Duke law graduate does in a dusty warehouse in dim light in a fraction of the time, partners lose revenue. Those lawyers sifting through documents and pulling out the ones that are in their jejune view are germane to a legal matter can be replaced with fast software. Wow. Hasta la vista billing for that mindless document review work.
- Accuracy. Today’s smart software is in what I call “close enough for horseshoes” accuracy. But looking ahead, the software will become more accurate or at least as accurate as a judge or other legal eagle needs to be to remain a certified lawyer. Imagine. Replacing legal deliberations with a natural language interface and the information in a legal database with the spice of journal content. There goes the legal backlog or at least some of it with speedy but good enough decisions.
- Consistency. Legal decisions are all over the place. There are sentencing guidelines and those are working really well, right? A software system operating on a body of content will produce outputs that are accurate within a certain range. Lawyers and judges output decisions which can vary widely.
Nevertheless, after the ruffling and screeching die down, the future is clear. If a judge in Columbia can figure out how to use smart software, that means the traditional approach to legal eagle life is going to change.
Stephen E Arnold, February 6, 2023
Google: So Clever, So So Clever
February 6, 2023
I read a good summary of the US and state governments’ allegations about the behavior of the Google ad machine. I recommend “How Google Manipulated Digital Ad Prices and Hurt Publishers, Per DOJ.” The write up provides some useful insight into how the Google management environment has created a culture of being really cute, possibly really clever. The methods employed reminded me of a group of high school science club members pranking the hapless administration of a secondary school. Fun and being able to be smarter than everyone else is the name of the game.
Let me cite one example from the write up because it is short, to the point, and leaves little room for a statement like, “Senator, I did not know how the system’s components worked. I will provide the information you need. Again, I am sorry.” Does that line sound familiar? I left out the “Senator, thank you for the question” but otherwise the sentiment seems in tune with the song some companies sing to semi-aware elected officials.
Google Ads allegedly submitted two bid prices, unbeknownst to advertisers and publishers, effectively controlling the winning bids and the price floors. To entrench its market power even further, the suit argues Google started manipulating ad prices under a different method, which it dubbed “Bernanke.” Starting in 2013, according to the suit, Google Ads would submit bid prices to AdX above the amount advertisers had budgeted, in order to win high-value impressions for a group of publishers — the ones most likely to switch ad tech platforms. This insight could only be obtained by leveraging data in Google’s own publisher ad server. Once AdX cleared the bids, Google Ads would offset the losses by charging higher fees to other publishers less likely to switch ad tech providers. This scheme allegedly helped Google lock in key publishers away from other ad exchanges and ad buying tools, all while maintaining its profits at the expense of other smaller publishers.
Once of the best jobs I had in my life was my stint at the Courier-Journal & Louisville Times Co. That newspaper, like many others, has been unable to cope with the digital revolution. Outfits like Google and their clever methods may have hastened the financial precipice on which many publishers teeter.
My concern is that this particular method — just one of many I assume — has been grinding out cash for the Google for about a decade. Now there is some action, but I think the far more important challenge Google faces will be the active consumer uptake of newer options. These may prove to be familiar with Clever Avenue.
I hope these AI-informed travelers take the road called Ethical Behavior Boulevard.
Stephen E Arnold, February 6, 2023
Definitive AI Market Snapshot
February 3, 2023
Matt Shumer, the co-founder of Otherside AI, posted on Twitter “the definitive market map Twitter thread.” You can find the tweet at this link. Mr. Shumer and his colleagues developed HyperWrite AI which is “”the world’s most powerful AI writing assistant.” The format of the information in Twitter is helpful, but I prefer information in tabular form. Here is Mr. Shumer’s “map” presented with the company name and its url. Some companies appear in the tables more than one time. Also, where necessary I have added a url which some readers may find useful. I have used Mr. Shumer’s categories, clarifying where necessary. Other minor edits included are for readability.
Category: Art/Images | |
Blimey Create | https://blimeycreate.com |
Craiyon | https://www.craiyon.com/ |
LexicaArt | https://lexica.art/?q=anime |
MageSpace | https://www.mage.space |
Midjourney | https://www.midjourney.com |
Playground AI | https://playgroundai.com |
Stockimg AI | https://stockimg.ai/ |
Note: Craiyon added to original list | |
Category: Audio Summaries | |
Meet Jamie AI | http://meetjamie.ai |
Synth_HQ | https://www.usesynth.com/ |
Word Cab | http://wordcab.com |
Category: Coding | |
GitHub Copilot | https://github.com/features/copilot |
HeyAI2sql | https://www.ai2sql.io |
MayaLabsIO | https://mayalabs.io/ |
Replit | https://replit.com |
Tabnine | https://www.tabnine.com |
Category: Conversational+A60 | |
Ask delphi | https://www.askdelphi.com |
Chat | https://chat.ai/index.html |
ChatGPT | https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
MyReplika | https://replika.ai |
Category: Customer Service | |
Brainfish AI | https://www.brainfi.sh/ |
CohereHQ | https://cohere.io/ |
Category: Databases | |
Pinecone | https://www.pinecone.io |
weaviate io | https://weaviate.io/ |
Category: Design | |
Diagram | ttps://diagram.com |
UIizard | https://uizard.io |
Vizcom AI | https://www.vizcom.ai |
Category: Gaming | |
InWorld AI | https://www.inworld.ai |
Scenario_gg | https://www.scenario.gg |
Category: Inference and Training | |
BananaDev_ | https://banana.dev |
Goose ai NLP | https://goose.ai |
Leap api | https://developer.leap.build |
GetSteamship | https://twitter.com/GetSteamship |
MosaicML | https://www.mosaicml.com |
Weights Biases | https://wandb.ai |
Category: Legal | |
Casetext | https://casetext.com |
Donotpay | https://donotpay.com |
SpellbookLegal | https://www.spellbook.legal |
Note: Casetext presents itself as an alternative to LexisNexis. | |
Cateogory: Marketing Copy Generation | |
Copy ai | https://www.copy.ai |
Copysmith ai | https://copysmith.ai |
Gomoonbeam | https://www.gomoonbeam.com |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
Jasper | http://Jasper.ai |
WriteSonic | https://writesonic.com |
Category: Models | |
AI21Labs | https://www.ai21.com/studio |
Anthropic AI | https://www.anthropic.com |
Cohere AI | https://cohere.ai |
Google AI | https://ai.google |
Open AI | https://openai.com |
Stability AI | https://stability.ai/home |
Category: Music | |
HarmonAI | https://www.harmonai.org |
PlaylistAI | https://www.playlistai.app/ |
Category: Photographs (Some Enhancers) | |
Bloom AI | http://bloom.ai |
Blend | https://www.blendnow.com/ |
ClaidAI | https://claid.ai/ |
Stylized AI | http://stylized.ai |
Category: Prompts and Chaining | |
Dust4 AI | https://dustai.es/en |
GPT index | https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/use_cases.html |
Humanloop | https://humanloop.com |
LangChain AI | https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html |
Promptbase | https://promptbase.com |
WhyLabs | https://whylabs.ai |
Category: Question Answering | |
Avanty App | https://avanty.app/ |
BetterBrainAI | https://www.betterbrain.ai |
GeniusSheets | https://www.geniussheets.com |
Olli AI | https://www.olli.ai |
Vazy Data | https://www.vazydata.com/ |
Category: Search and Retrieval | |
MemdotAI | https://get.mem.ai |
Perplexity AI | https://www.perplexity.ai |
You | https://you.com/ |
Category: Survey Analysis | |
Askviable | https://www.askviable.com/ |
Kraftful | https://www.kraftful.com |
Category: Video | |
Augxlabs | https://www.augxlabs.com |
Bria AI | https://bria.ai |
Gloss AI | http://glossai.co |
OASIScalling | https://theoasis.com/ |
Runwayml | https://runwayml.com |
Category: Writing Tools | |
HyperWriteAI | https://hyperwriteai.com |
Every | https://every.to/ |
The taxonomy is essentially Mr. Shumer’s. But the list of companies was interesting to me and my research team.
More on the AI Betamax Versus VHS Dust Up
February 2, 2023
“24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI” gathers four smart software stumbles. The examples are highly suggestive that some butchers have been putting their fingers on the scales. The examples include the stage set approach to Tesla’s self driving and OpenAI’s reliance on humans to beaver away out of sight to make outputs better. In general I agree with the points in the write up.
However, there is one statement which attracted my yellow high light pen like a sci-fi movie tractor beam. Here it is:
Sometimes the slower road is the better road.
It may be that the AI TGV has already left the station and is hurtling down the rails from Paris to Nimes. Microsoft announced that the lovable Teams video chat and Swiss Army knife of widgets will be helping users lickity split. Other infusions are almost certain to follow. Even airlines are thinking smart software. Airlines! These outfits lose luggage with bar codes. Perhaps AI will help, but I remain skeptical. How does one lose a bag with a bar code in our post 9/11 world?
The challenge for Google, Facebook (which wants to be a leader in AI), and the other organizations betting their investors’ money on AI going to take a “slower road”?
My TGV high speed train reference is not poetical; it is a reflection of the momentum of information. The OpenAI machine — with or without legerdemain — is rolling along. OpenAI has momentum. With foresight or dumb luck, Microsoft is riding along.
The “slower road” echoes Google’s conservative approach. Remember that Google sacrificed credibility in AI with the Dr. Timnit Gebru affair. Like a jockey with a high value horse, the beast is now carrying lead pads. Combine that with bureaucratic bloat and concern for ad revenues, I am not sure Google and some other outfits can become the high twitch muscled creature needed to cope with market momentum.
Betamax was better. Well, it did not dominate the market. VHS was pushed into the ditch, but that required time and technological innovation. The AI race is not over but the “slow” angle is late from the gate.
Stephen E Arnold, February 2, 2023